What is it with Americans putting their hand on their heart at solemn occasions like the funeral of an ex-president? They do know, I suppose, that the heart is just a lump of muscle that circulates blood? I mean, we have known for five hundred years that the heart has nothing to do with emotions, […]
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How sad it is when we discover that a writer, an artist, an actor, a musician, whom we have admired and enjoyed, believes in an imaginary friend.
I have never had, in a long life of creating ideas, and things, a serious review of any of it. No serious consideration of what was attempted, what were the problems, what was achieved. But then you don’t get that for your life itself I suppose,
Strange, I guess, how reluctant humans are to accept that the world managed quite well without them before they were born, and will manage just as well after they die. Strange too, I suppose, that in a world where all organisms die, after one day for a Mayfly, or five thousand years for a Bristlecone
Oh for heavens sake how can it already be nearly the end of twenty eighteen? The years are flashing past faster than that rock from another star that whizzed through our solar system to fast to be properly observed
There is not a religious believer on the planet who doesn’t reveal their ignorance of reality every time they open their mouth
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How sad that a man in his ninety fifth year should say: “My faith has never been stronger”. In all those years his mind never matured enough, his intelligence never developed enough, his knowledge never grew enough, to be able to think for himself. And that both he, and others, should see this not as
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How many millions of words have I written? Half a million in one book alone, other millions scattered from one end of my life to the other. It would be nice to think one or two will be remembered, else why did I bother?
I began reading when I was three. Now, seventy years later, surely I have absorbed all the wisdom of the world?
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